Zixinus wrote:I thought the code thing was actually rather clever. It was practically shouted at you throughout the game yet it was still left to you to figure out.
It WAS a nice bit of payoff, yes.
The ending is annoying. I had plenty of RadX, Rad-Away and a radiation suit going into the control chamber but the program still makes you die even though you've survived worse getting the G.E.C.K.
On one hand, there is the fact that there is just certain amount of radiation that no one can survive.
Silly you, using game mechanics
. The main argument for me is the whole "What about Fawkes for fucks sake".
On the other hand, they could have just somehow disabled the emergency procedue. What kind of water treatment plant has that kind of a failsafe anyway? What, good old dad expected to die in heroic fashion?
The problematicness of the procedure and emergency lock was a big point of why the Enclave needed "you". I recall the radiation being due to Dad rerouting something to try to kill the Enclave soldiers with him. (How the fuck did Autumn survive that though? He had less innate Rad resistance than someone from the wastes, and no armour).
What I don't get, is why not just get a robot or something. Or a ghoul from near-by Underworld, they're immune to radiation (or Hawkes, however my guess is that he wasn't initially meant as a companion, he even said so back in the Vault but I guess the developers decided against it later on, hence his weak excuse).
Well, the alarms were a 'blaring, so maybe they didn't have time? (There's no excuse for not being able to use your radiation immune companions)
What bothers me even more, is that after I destroy President Eden what's my quarrel with the Enclave guy? Why can't I just give him the code? After all, he wants to do the same thing I want: activate the damn thing. He could all go and die a heroic death.
Presumably it's not worth his life to him, and he leaves before the needs for a sacrificial mule is evident.
And the thing about virus. I can get it why the Enclave is insane, but how could the computer be (also, why is a computer persuaded by a high speech skill?)?
One of the bits in the speech persuasion is that the computer may not be running at 100%, especially with faulty data input over the centuries.
Didn't he see most of the other vaults? Didn't he know that they were meant to be experiments (which mostly failed, miserably, judging by the vaults in the DC area alone)?
The vaults performed their roles as experiments reasonably well, the only flaw was thatthe remnants of the US government hit a snag due to their (almost succesful) plan to launch a giant spaceship failing and their plan to kill the rest of the world with F.E.V being foiled by the Chosen One in FO2.
Doesn't he see that there is no USA left?
Listen to the radio station, he talks a lot about America being an ideal. And anyway, as long as the dream of freedom lives on, armies of power armour clad soldiers with giant plasma rifles can ressurect it from the smoking ash piles of the mutated monstrosities defiling the lands of America
